Spring 2021
Metaphor’s Keepers: The Mobile Armies of Post-Truth Rhetorics
Dr. Jenny Rice (University of Kentucky), 2:00PM-4:15PM CST, February 16, via Zoom
Overdoing Democracy: The Problem of Political Polarization
Dr. Robert B. Talisse (Vanderbilt University), 3:30PM-5:00PM CST, March 2, via Zoom
Fall 2020
Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
David McCraw (Senior VP & Deputy General Counsel of The New York Times), 3:30PM-4:30PM CST, November 19, via Zoom.
Spring 2020
The Next Wave of Disinformation
Dr. Samuel Woolley (University of Texas at Austin), 3:30PM-4:30PM, CMA 5.136
Overdoing Democracy: The Problem of Political Polarization [CANCELLED]
Dr. Robert B. Talisse (Vanderbilt University), April 7, 2020, 3:30PM-5PM, BMC 5.208
Fall 2019
Good Systems: Designing Values-Driven AI Technologies Is Our Grand Challenge
Dr. Kenneth R. Fleischmann (University of Texas at Austin), September 24, 2019, 3:30-4:30PM, CMA 5.136
Ethical Leadership in Newsrooms in the #MeToo Era
Dr. Kathleen McElroy, Meme Drumwright, Kate West, and Scott Stroud (University of Texas at Austin), October 29, 2019, 2PM-3PM, BMC 5.208
Debating Civil Rights: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Battle for the American Soul
Dr. Nicholas Buccola (Linfield College), November 21, 3:30PM-5PM, BMC 5.208
Spring 2019
Media Freedom and the Middle East: Pursuing a Self-Regulatory Approach in Qatar
Dr. Amy Kristin Sanders (University of Texas at Austin), February 19, 2019, 3:30-4:30PM, BMC 5.208
Cloak of Invisibility: Perceived Privacy and the Ethical Study of Digital Fan Culture
Dr. Suzanne Scott (University of Texas at Austin), March 26, 2019, 3:30-4:30PM, CMA 5.136
The Spectacle of Lynching Redeployed: On the Performance of Democratic Regard
Dr. Melvin Rogers (Brown University), April 9, 2019, 3:30-5:00PM, BMC 5.208
Weather Media in the Public Sphere
Dr. John Durham Peters (Yale University), May 2, 2019, 1:30-3:00PM, BMC 5.208
Fall 2018
Feeling Rules, Media Ethics, and the Moral Foundation Dictionary
Dr. Sven Joeckel (University of Erfurt, Germany) & Dr. Leyla Dogruel (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany), September 19, 2018
BYOD! Should We Really Ask New College Grads and Employees to Bring their Own Devices to Work?
Dr. Keri K. Stephens (University of Texas at Austin), September 25, 2018 [Video]
Dr. Gina Chen (University of Texas at Austin), October 16, 2018 [Video]
Kathleen Lucente (Red Fan Communications), October 30, 2018 [Video]
Journalism Ethics amid Irrational Publics: Disrupt and Redesign
Dr. Stephen J. A. Ward (University of British Columbia), November 5, 2018 [Video]
Spring 2018
Dr. Kate Pounders, University of Texas at Austin, February 6, 2018 [Video]
Engaging Newsrooms in the Digital Age
Dr. Talia Stroud, University of Texas at Austin, February 22, 2018 [Video]
Dr. Scott R. Stroud, University of Texas at Austin, February 27, 2018 [Video]
Hacking Big Data: Discovering Vulnerabilities in a Sociotechnical Society
Dr. danah boyd, Microsoft Research / Data & Society, March 6, 2018 [Video]
How to Survive the Robot Apocalypse
Dr. David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University, April 3, 2018 [Video]
Dr. Donald Heider, Loyola University Chicago, April 10, 2018 [Video]
Media Criticism in Turbulent Times: A Panel Discussion
Dr. Rod Hart, Dr. Trish Roberts-Miller, Dr. Barry Brummett, Dr. Michael Butterworth, Dr. Scott Stroud, April 25 (Wednesday), 3:30-4:30PM, BMC 5.208 [Video]
Fall 2017
Can We Shop Our Way to a Better Planet? The Promises and Pitfalls of Green Consumption
Dr. Lucy Atkinson, University of Texas at Austin, September 21, 2017 [Video]
Anthems and Activism: Mediating the Politics of the NFL
Dr. Michael L. Butterworth, University of Texas at Austin, October 11, 2017 [Video]
Media Psychology’s Explanation for Why You love Stories: A Morally Ambiguous Resolution
Dr. Robert Lewis, University of Texas at Austin, October 19, 2017 [Video]
Are New Media Technologies Good for Education and Democracy?
Dr. Gregory Pappas, Texas A&M University, October 26, 2017 [Video]
The Dark Side of Social Media: A Panel Discussion
Dr. Angeline Close Scheinbaum, Allye Doorey, Dr. Gary Wilcox, Dr. Scott R. Stroud, Jonathan Henson, University of Texas at Austin, November 6, 2017 [Video]
Ethics and the Appeal to Scientific Consensus in the Climate Change Debates
Dr. Jean Goodwin, North Carolina State University, November 14, 2017 [Video]
Spring 2017
Dr. Christopher Queen, Harvard University, January 24, 2017
American Journalism’s Ideology: The Question of Bias in the Media
Dr. Robert Jensen, University of Texas at Austin, January 31, 2017
We’re All Gatekeepers Now: Journalism Ethics for an Unfiltered Age
Dr. Mary Bock, University of Texas at Austin, February 16, 2017
Ethical Issues in the Fight Against Revenge Porn
Dr. Scott R. Stroud, University of Texas at Austin, March 21, 2017
Cosmopolitan Media Ethics and the Global Imaginary
Dr. Clifford Christians, University of Illinois, April 4, 2017
Dr. Patrick Lee Plaisance, Colorado State University, April 10, 2017
Rhetorics of the Good Life: Social Ontology, Ethics, and Communication
Dr. Omedi Ochieng, Denison University, May 3, 2017
Fall 2016
Dr. Minette E. Drumwright, University of Texas at Austin, October 13, 2016
Trump, Clinton, and the Rhetorical Construction of Democracy in Campaign 2016
Dr. Martin J. Medhurst, Baylor University, November 2, 2016
